See the hierarchy of pests most at risk

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A list of 83 pests considered to pose the greatest phytosanitary risk to Brazil was defined by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa), as a result of a systematization and hierarchization process coordinated by the Department of Plant Health and Agricultural Inputs of the Secretariat of Defense Agriculture.

From the statistical analysis of the results obtained, it was possible to classify them into three risk categories: very high, high and medium. The list of pests defined for each of the different risk groups was structured considering the impossibility of making a distinction between the level of importance or greater risk of a given organism in relation to the other.

“The list of hierarchical pests with the highest phytosanitary risk materializes the current portrait of the main phytosanitary problems that afflict national producers”, highlights the general coordinator of Plant Protection, Graciane de Castro. According to her, due to the complexity of factors involved, the results should not be considered as a single ranking, without due depth regarding the different specific criteria and their respective weights and correlations.

In addition to prioritizing the registration processes for pesticides and the like, the result of this work will be used to support individualized decision-making based on the different institutional objectives involved, such as the review of current official pest prevention and control programs, the updating of phytosanitary parameters relating to seed and seedling quality standards and realignment in relation to scientific research priorities. 

List with the hierarchy of pests with the greatest phytosanitary risk in Brazil:

VERY HIGH